Taking the pain away

I’ve just read Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut’s book about the firebombing of Dresden, which he experienced as an American prisoner …

Wristwatches

From the Royal Observatory’s Time Galleries: “Wristwatches were originally a fashion ‘fad’ for women and regarded as being too feminine …

The history of shared GMT

I visited the Royal Observatory’s Time Gallery in Greenwich a couple of weeks ago. The notion of publicly agreed shared …